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Policy, Planning and Development - Expanded (PPDE)
- D class assignments for undergraduates available in RGL102; phone (213) 740-1460.
- D class assignments for graduate students available in RGL102; phone (213) 740-1460.
- To access and submit the D-clearance request form for PPD courses, please visit www.usc.edu/schools/sppd/students
Exploration of environmental problems linked to urbanization, drawing on historical analysis, social theory, scientific research, and city planning/design practice. Alternative policy options for urban sustainability. Duplicates credit in the former
GEOG 601.
| 50900R | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-5:20pm | Monday | Canceled | Robert Vos | | |  |
Communicating the processes, products, and concepts of city design; merging theoretical and skill-based exercises for effective communication; verbal and graphic communication; physical components of urban landscape and dimensional attributes
Methodology, assessment and planning methods for urban sustainability and land use planning; how the choice and use of theory and methods impact the planning process; systems and spatial analysis
| 50906D | 001 | 2.0 | Lecture | 10:00-11:50am | Monday | 6 of 32 | Monica Gilchrist | RGL209 | | |
Accounting and financial management principles and practices in nonprofit organizations: budgeting financial analysis, internal controls, financial policies, grant making and financial reporting. Duplicates credit in
PPD 541.
| 50908R | 001 | Lecture | 6:00-9:20pm | Monday | 18 of 30 | Sona Chandwani | VKC203 | |   |
Grant making process and proposal development; philanthropic foundations; strategies for funding; budgeting, logic models, and evaluation; peer review
Critical issues involved in International Development NGO management; theoretical work and analytical framework to understand organizational features; NGO management, issues and challenges
| 50904R | 001 | Lecture | 6:00-9:20pm | Monday | 13 of 32 | Rym Kaki | VKC201 | | |
Techniques to measure inequality and segregation. Policy evaluation using techniques for casual inference. Prerequisites:
PPD 558.
Examination of China through the lens of the US federal government; trade issues; economic coordination and stability; environment and sustainability; defense and security; human development
The use of media as an implement of social policy and change at the state and federal level; analysis of social problems and the effect policy practitioners influence on change
| 50912R | 001 | Lecture | 6:00-9:20pm | Tuesday | Canceled | Daniel Heimpel | | | |
Governance of nonprofit organizations; responsibilities and expectations of boards; board effectiveness; and changes in governance as a result of recent federal and state legislation.
Key aspects of the fundraising process for nonprofit organizations; theoretical foundations and general fundraising principles; techniques sources of donations; key aspects of managing the process
| 50909R | 001 | Lecture | 6:00-9:20pm | Wednesday | 15 of 30 | Theresa Davis | VKC211 | Word (67072 KB) | |